Study Desk

It happened that as we were going to ^(C1)the place of prayer, a slave woman who had ^(C2)a spirit of divination met us, who was bringing great profit to her masters by fortune-telling.

She followed Paul and us and cried out repeatedly, saying, "These men are bond-servants of ^(C1)the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you a way of salvation."

Now she continued doing this for many days. But Paul was greatly annoyed, and he turned and said to the spirit, "I command you ^(C1)in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" And it came out at that very ^(F1)moment.

But when her masters saw that their hope of ^(C1)profit was suddenly gone, they seized ^(C2)Paul and Silas and ^(C3)dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities,